The Aid Transparency Index

Results of the 2018 Aid Transparency Index. Visit the website for further analysis and information.

The Aid Transparency Index is the only independent measure of aid transparency among the world’s major development agencies. It tracks and encourages progress, while holding donors to account for commitments they have made to open up their information.

This briefing note, Publishing High Quality Data: Guidance for Donors, provides examples of donors’ publishing practices and highlights some of the learning from our research for the 2018 Aid Transparency Index. Our data collection processes are rigorous. They enable us to take on the role of data users, searching for relevant and up-to-date information. Although publishing practices are improving, and many donors scored well on the Index, there are still many instances of missing, irrelevant or unusable data.